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A Girl Like You · Edwyn Collins

A Girl Like You · Edwyn Collins
EXERCISE 4 OF 11
Groove C
100 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Girl Like You on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
35/100

snare through bars 1-73, ride through bars 74-109 and snare through bars 110-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-32, and 4 more places -- 58.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
A Girl Like You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 57, 73, 81 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Girl Like You?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is A Girl Like You hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in A Girl Like You?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 57, 73, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED